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fromWIRED
1 month ago

How Can a Locomotive Pull a Long Train That's Much Heavier?

Have you ever watched a mile-long freight train rumble by and wondered how one locomotive can pull more than a hundred fully loaded cars? The locomotive weighs maybe 150 metric tons, and each car is about 100 metric tons, which means it's hauling 10,000 tons. I mean, if you weigh 170 pounds, this would be like pulling three SUVs totaling 12,000 pounds.
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fromBig Think
2 months ago

How the Industrial Revolution invented modern computing

Manual human computation practices from the Industrial Revolution shaped modern algorithms and predictive models, creating foundational methods that inform contemporary artificial intelligence.
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